"Reducing consumption is imperative, but it's pointless to cut out meat and cars while having lots of children"

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Source : "Greens Need to Grasp the Nettle: Aren't There Just Too Many People?". www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2007.

Madeleine Bunting

#Children Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Car Quotes

“Sometimes the difference between two candidates is an important one in the immediate sense, and then I believe trying to get somebody into office, who is a little better, who is less dangerous, is understandable. But never forgetting that no matter who gets into office, the crucial question is not who is in office, but what kind of social movement do you have. Because if you have a powerful social movement, it doesn't matter who is in office.”
“I'm not afraid of having an agenda. I do have an agenda. It's a positive agenda.”
“Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love.”
“And maybe, just maybe, it will.”
“People should fall in love with their eyes closed.”
“If you had told me twenty years ago that I would write a novel set in Russia, much less two, I simply wouldn't have believed you. I had no familiarity with Russia or its history, but part of what drives me as a reader, and more and more as a writer, is curiosity, the desire to explore unfamiliar terrain and inhabit alternate lives.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“We're all filled with naturally recurring patterns that make us unique - they're called talents. And our charge is to bloody well use them.”
“The whole inside of the Pyramid on the ground level on the New Earth is one great Garden within the City, a great City Park!-His Heavenly Fair in His Heaven so fair!”

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